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Short Poems to Introduce You to Classic Poetry
Here are short poems to inspire and provide comfort in tough times.
November 27, 2023
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Walker Larson
Against the Tyranny of Time: Love as an ‘Ever Fixed Mark’
What does Shakespeare say about true love? Sonnet 116 suggests that it is not “time’s fool.”
August 21, 2023
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It’s National Poetry Month: Ways and Reasons to Join the Festivities
April has arrived, that season when in many places the growl of a lawnmower replaces the roar of ...
April 1, 2023
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Shakespeare’s Sonnet 46: Putting Things in the Right Order
Great literature, while seeming to highlight one important insight, often seems to be about much, much more. Shakespeare's ...
March 29, 2023
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Paul Prezzia
Using Well the Power to Hurt: Sonnet 94 as a Reflection on Good Government
What does a poem have to do with governing a country, any country, our country? Shakespeare's Sonnet 94, ...
March 6, 2023
BY
Paul Prezzia
‘Let Me Count the Ways’: Why You Might Consider Writing a Sonnet
With schools closed from the pandemic, the young men from Pennsylvania's Gregory the Great Academy, where my grandson Michael is ...
May 26, 2020
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Introducing the Sonnet
"They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate ...
June 25, 2019
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One of Michelangelo’s Poems
On the Brink of Death Now hath my life across a stormy sea Like a frail bark reached ...
November 30, 2018
BY
Lorraine Ferrier
Poet Betsy Hughes: Classical Poetry Offers Us Strength
A sonnet by Betsy Hughes offers unmistakable relief; you can actually understand what you are reading. Words in ...
May 30, 2016
BY
Sharon Kilarski
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